Start without glow plugs?
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Start without glow plugs?
I live in the Northern California Delta area and have a 1995 F-250 with a PSD with 90000 Miles. All is fine although I have noticed the PSD starts fine with waiting for the glow plug (wait to start) light to go out. You can get in and start it right up, and the wait to start light will go out in about 10 seconds with the engine running. My question is, will I damage anything (maybe the glow plugs) if I do not wait for the Wait to Start light to go out?
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Nope - regardless of what the light is doing, the plugs stay on for about two minutes after you turn the key on every time you start the truck. So you're definitely not hurting anything to "run the engine with them on" since that's what it's always doing anyway.
If the ambient temps are warm enough for the engine to fire without the aid of glow plugs, then you're totally fine. If it's right on the edge of being warm enough then the engine might run rough and put out white smoke for a minute, but that doesn't hurt the truck at all (just maybe the environment, since the white smoke is unburned fuel vapor.)
Duncan
If the ambient temps are warm enough for the engine to fire without the aid of glow plugs, then you're totally fine. If it's right on the edge of being warm enough then the engine might run rough and put out white smoke for a minute, but that doesn't hurt the truck at all (just maybe the environment, since the white smoke is unburned fuel vapor.)
Duncan
